Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-11-19
Dewey code: 005
Price: $56.95
Review Oracle9i: SQL (with an Introduction to PL/SQL) / Course Technology:Prepares students for the first exam in both the Oracle DBA and Internet Application Developer Certification Tracks, and offers a solid general understanding of Oracle9i SQL.
Publication date: 2008-09-18
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $24.99
Price: $24.99
Review The Rational Guide To SQL Server 2005 Security / Rational Press:SQL Server 2005 takes a generational leap forward in security technology. When configured properly, a SQL Server instance is secure by design, secure by default, and secure in deployment. In The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Security, Michael Hotek clearly explains the new features of SQL Server 2005. Beginning at installation and progressing through each successive layer of the engine, he discusses the best practices for each aspect of security configuration. Topics include installation and surface area configuration, endpoints and connectivity, principals, securables, permissions, and encryption. Advanced topics include code security and auditing.
Authors
- Hilary Cotter
- Michael Coles
Publication date: 2008-12-02
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $49.99
Price: $29.90
Review Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 / Apress:Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–language search is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demand for human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of its built–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form of Integrated Full–Text Search (iFTS). Integrated Full–Text Search uses text–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content. Whether you want to set up an enterprise–wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural–language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full–Text Search: Introducing powerful Integrated Full–Text Search features in SQL Server such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists Showing you how to optimize full–text query performance through features like full–text indexes and iFilters Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of Integrated Full–Text Search in your daily projects What you’ll learn Harness the power of iFTS for your applications. Administer iFTS catalogs and indexes. Use new iFTS features such as stop lists and iFTS–based dynamic management functions. Optimize and tune iFTS queries. Implement language–aware, natural–language searches for data. Simplify searches of structured and unstructured content. [+]Who is this book for? The audience for this book includes SQL Server SQL and Transact–SQL developers, and also. NET developers, who want to take advantage of the new Integrated Full–Text Search (iFTS) functionality available in SQL Server 2008. About the Apress Pro Series The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
Publication date: 1988-11-03
Review Business File Processing!: Cobol, Cics, and Sql / Random House USA Inc:
Publication date: 2006-10-16
Dewey code: 005.7585
List Price: $31.25
Price: $24.69
Review DB2 for z/OS: Data Sharing in a Nutshell / Vervante:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-10-15
Dewey code: 005.7585
List Price: $59.99
Price: $27.76
Review OCP Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators Exam Guide (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) / McGraw-Hill Osborne Media:The only study guide in the market for those taking the Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators exam!
Publication date: 2005-08-26
List Price: $24.99
Price: $24.99
Review The Definitive Guide to Scaling Out SQL Server 2000 / Realtimepublishers:Enterprise applications have become more complex and have taken on a greater burden for managing a company's critical data. At the same time, the amount of data managed by those applications has swelled exponentially as companies begin to track an increasingly greater amount of information-data about customers, vendors, sales, and more. In Realtimepublishers' The Definitive Guide® to Scaling Out SQL Server 2000, industry expert Don Jones provides a concrete framework for expanding your existing SQL Server database so that it can scale to meet the mounting and dynamic operational requirements. Get the Knowledge You Need On: o General Scale Out Strategies o Distributed Partitioned Views o Distributed Partition Databases o Windows Clustering o High Performance Storage o Best Practices for Improving SQL.
Authors
- Ronald R. Plew
- Arie Jones
- Alex Kriegel
- Ryan K. Stephens
- Robert F. Garrett
Publication date: 2005-04-29
Dewey code: 005.133
List Price: $39.99
Price: $24.81
Review SQL Functions Programmer's Reference / Wrox:Gives programmers two-in-one coverage, with both a "how-to" on SQL functions and a complete SQL functions reference SQL is the standard language for database queries; this book's advanced coverage helps programmers write their own SQL functions Covers both the internationally standardized SQL 99 functions and the hundreds of additional functions introduced by vendors, including the subtle variations required to successfully migrate or interoperate between vendor products Covers the latest versions of the major relational database management system (RDMS) applications: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and MySQL
Edition: Stg
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $34.95
Price: $27.18
Review DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration Upgrade: Certification Study Guide / Mc Press:In DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration Upgrade Certification Study Guide, Roger E. Sanders—one of the world’s leading DB2 authors and an active participant in the development of IBM’s DB2 certification exams—covers everything a reader needs to know to pass the short—but notoriously challenging—DB2 9 for LUW DBA Certification Upgrade exam (Exam 736). This specialized study guide steps you through all of the topics that are covered on the exam, including server management, data placement, XML concepts, activity analysis, high availability, database security, and much more. Everything new to DB2 9 that you will need to know in order to successfully pass the exam is covered in this book. Taking and passing the DB2 9 for LUW DBA Certification Upgrade exam (Exam 736) provides validation that you have mastered DB2 9. Passing this exam also earns you the IBM Certified Database Administrator or Advanced Database Administrator certification. This concentrated guide includes an extensive set of practice questions in each chapter that closely models the actual exam, along with an answer key with a full description of why the answer is the correct one. No other source gives you this much help in passing the exam. With the DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration Upgrade Certification Study Guide, you will:• Gain the knowledge necessary to pass the DB2 9 for LUW DBA Upgrade Certification exam (Exam 736) • Discover the changes to DB2 9 that you’ll need to know in order to be successful when taking the exam • Receive an explanation of every topic included on the test…by someone involved in the creation of the actual exam • Find 60 practice questions based on the actual exam’s format and approach, along with comprehensive answers to the test questions to help you gain understanding.
Authors
- Lubor Kollar
- Dejan Sarka
- Itzik Ben-Gan
Dewey code: 005.7565
List Price: $44.99
Price: $24.61
Review Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (Solid Quality Learning) / Microsoft Press:This thorough, hands-on reference for database developers and administrators delivers expert guidance on sophisticated uses of Transact-SQL (T-SQL)—one of the most familiar and powerful programming languages for SQL Server. Written by a T-SQL guru, this guide focuses on advanced querying techniques and how queries are interpreted and processed by the SQL Server execution engine. You’ll get in-depth coverage of the sophisticated uses of T-SQL, including the differences between logical and physical processing, nesting of queries, and much more. The book explains and compares solutions to database-development problems in both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, discussing the new T-SQL programming features added to SQL Server 2005 in detail. Includes extensive code samples, table examples, and logic puzzles to help database developers and administrators understand the intricacies and help promote mastery of T-SQL.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2008-03-01
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review Fundamentals of SQL Server 2005 / PDSA, Inc.:This book is a practical, no nonsense guide to using SQL Server 2005. SQL Server is a great database and is used by many businesses for their database applications. If you are an application developer or aspiring DBA you should read this book. This book will teach you the topics you need to know to write effective SQL including: 1). Relational Database Theory and Normalization Techniques 2). How to create databases and tables 3). Using Indexes and Constraints 4). How to use SQL to retrieve data, modify data, and join tables 5). Using System Functions and user-defined functions 6). Taking advantage of Stored Procedures, Views and Triggers Paul has a knack for taking otherwise complex topics and explaining them clearly and simply. [+]Join Paul as he explains to you how to use SQL Server for your database applications.
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 005.7565
List Price: $36.00
Price: $24.98
Review Advanced ANSI SQL Data Modeling and Structure Processing / Artech House Publishers:Provides an essential tool for utilizing the ANSI SQL outer join operation to perform simple or complex data modeling. Presents a comprehensive review of the outer join operation, its syntax, and new features and capabilities that can be developed based on the operation's data modeling capacity. DLC: SQL (Computer program language).
Publication date: 2007-04-29
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $29.95
Price: $25.99
Review Oracle SQL in 10 Minutes / Takveen, Inc.:
Creator: Joe Celko
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-03-04
Dewey code: 005.756
List Price: $64.99
Price: $34.06
Review The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL / Addison-Wesley Professional:Information, explanations, and advice you need to master Transact-SQL and develop the best possible Transact-SQL code. Covers Microsoft Transact-SQL. Softcover. CD-ROM included. DLC: SQL (Computer program language).
Authors
- Boris M. Trukhnov
- Alex Kriegel
Publication date: 2008-04-07
Dewey code: 005.133
List Price: $49.99
Price: $24.55
Review SQL Bible (Bible (Wiley)) / Wiley:Combining theory with everyday practicality, this definitive volume is packed with the up-to-date information, new features, and explanations you need to get the very most out of SQL and its latest standard. The book is unique in that every chapter highlights how the new SQL standard applies to the three major databases, Oracle 11g, IBM DB2 9. 5, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The result is a comprehensive, useful, and real-world reference for all SQL users, from beginners to experienced developers.
Authors
- Walter J. Voytek II
- Rodney Landrum
- Shawn McGehee
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $39.99
Price: $25.05
Review Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services / Apress:Take full advantage of everything SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services has to offer and deliver customizable, web–enabled reports across your business at a reasonable cost. Learn best–practices from professionals who use SQL Server Reporting Services daily to deliver solutions to paying clients and gain the competitive edge on using Microsoft’s enterprise–level reporting platform. Provides best–practices for using Reporting Services Written by practicing professionals with paying clients Your key to delivering business intelligence across the enterprise What you’ll learn Write efficient queries on which to base a report. Build and lay out a report using Report Designer. Enable end users to create ad hoc reports on demand. Combine Reporting Services with Analysis Services, SharePoint Portal Server, and other technologies to deliver business intelligence across the enterprise. Secure and audit your reports as part of your regulatory compliance efforts. Customize your reports using C# assemblies and embedded Visual Basic. NET code. Who is this book for? Data analysts, developers, database administrators, and others who develop and deploy reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. [+]About the Apress Pro Series The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
Creator: Donald Burleson
Publication date: 2008-12-01
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $49.95
Price: $31.32
Review Advanced Oracle SQL Programming: The Expert Guide to Writing Complex Queries (Oracle In-Focus series) / Rampant Techpress:Providing the best solutions to Oracle customers, this comprehensive manual answers some of SQL's most exciting challenges. Covering all the elements of an Oracle query—including new features from Oracle versions 9i, 10g, and 11g—this guide will help information technology managers and programmers alike to gain new insight into complex queries, advanced aggregation, and analytics techniques. Introducing Model and XML as new ways to retrieve data out of the database, this sourcebook culminates as a perfect companion for advanced programmers and Oracle experts.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 005.7585
List Price: $45.00
Price: $29.80
Review DB2 Olap Server - Theory and Practices (Ibm Redbooks) / Ibm:
Authors
- Chuck Hawkins
- Louise Davidson
- Tony Bain
- Tony Bain
- Louis Davidson
- Robin Dewson
- Chuck Hawkins
- Robin Dewson
Publication date: 2003-09-24
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $39.99
Price: $27.97
Review SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures Handbook (Expert's Voice) / Apress:Stored procedures are compiled T-SQL statements that reside on the database. They are the cornerstones of successful data manipulation, and data-handling operations of every complexity make use of them. This book is an in-depth guide to a key area of database development. This book tackles real-world problems faced by developers when working with stored procedures, showing you how to solve these problems, avoid the common pitfalls, and produce faster, more robust stored procedures. Put simply: if you want to write better stored procedures, then this is the book for you.
Publication date: 2004-04-27
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $32.50
Price: $24.70
Review DB2 for Linux on Iseries: Implementation Guide (IBM Redbooks) / IBM.Com/Redbooks:
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